Dino was a monorepo started in late 2022 to learning Godot, do game jams, and start some addons/libraries. Since late 2023, I've been reimagining and refactoring - the games have being deconstructed and DRYed up into shared systems.

Dino now presents a suite of short games - these are largely platformer and top-down games with dungeon crawler and metroidvania-style maps. The maps are procedurally generated with basic algorithms and some parsed plaintext - I hope to put together some video devlogs covering the code soon.

I'm currently pushing for a June 1st release on steam! Wishlist it today, or just get the latest on itch.io.

Feel free to ping me on Discord with any questions or feedback!

• Dino Year One DevLog (Jan 2024)
  • A summary of Dino's first year of development (up to Summer 2023).

You can read the markdown directly in docs/*, or follow the links below to a Docsify-built static site.

• Dino Website
  • Games
  • Systems
  • History
  • Changelog
  • Credits
  • (Old) Games
  • (Old) Addons
  • (Old) BB Godot

There are some stellar Godot addons out there! Here is a list of those used in Dino:

• gdUnit4 by MikeSchulze
• pandora by bitbrain
• godot_input_helper by nathanhoad
• godot_sound_manager by nathanhoad
• gdfxr by timothyqiu
• godot-text_effects by teebarjunk
• godot-aseprite-wizard by viniciusgerevini
• Metroidvania-System by KoBeWi
• phantom-camera by ramokz
• asset-explorer by SirLich

Many thanks to my patrons! You can support my work here: https://www.patreon.com/russmatney

• Cameron Kingsbury
• Duaa Osman
• Ryan Schmukler
• Alex Chojnacki
• Aspen Smith
• Jake Bartlam
• Ellie Matney

Dino © 2022-2024 by Russell Matney

Dino's source code is available via the MIT license - go for it!

(Unless noted elsewhere) ALL other assets (art, sound, music, aseprite files, etc) are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. That's Attribution Required, Non-Commerical, Share-alike (sticky license)!

Note that the external Godot Addons (listed above) also have their own licenses as well.

Dino uses third-party assets from talented creators that must be purchased before use.

Fonts:

• Arcade Cabinet by V3X3D
• Enter Input by V3X3D

These are available (after purchase) under the CC4 licence